Improved soda-water fountain



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEOPHILUS OGDEN AND JOSEPH HNDERMYER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.

IMPROVED SODA-WATER. FOU NTAlN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,496, dated November 3, 1863.

water fountains with an air and water tight receptacle for ice for the purpose of cooling the soda-water contained in the fountain, the combined fountain and cooler being so arranged that while the main bulk of the sodawater may remain of comparatively warmer temperature that portion of the same from which the tap draws will be most effectively cooled in advance of the remainder and a1- ways furnish a cold supply while ice and ice-water remain in the refrigerator. Our improved fountain being thus made self-cooling and complete without the usual separate appurtenances for cooling and drawing the sodawater, has, therefore, the advantage of ready portability, and may be placed on any table or counter to be ready for use; and in order that our invention may be fully understood, we will now proceed more particularly to describe the same.

On reference to the drawings, in which similar letters of reference allude to like parts in both views, Figure 1 is an eleva'tion of our improved soda-water fountain, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.

rlhe fountain consists of a dome-shaped casing. A, having cast or otherwise attached to it an inwardly-curved bottom, B. The charge ot' soda-water and carbonio-acid gas is supplied at C.

D is the tap for drawing the soda-water from the fountain.- It is placed sufficiently high above the bottom of the fountain to admit a glass underneath its discharge-mouth e, and is in the interior of the fountain provided with a downward-bent extension-tube, f, taking the water from near the bottom of the vessel.

The casing A is around its base provided with an outwardprojecting rounded bead or rim, g, for the purpose of holding an expanded circular sheet, H, of india-rubber or other elastic material, the thickened annular band h of which con tracts itself above the rim g of of the fountain and forms a perfectly-tight joint.

When the charged fountain is supplied to the vender or consumer, he turns it upside down, lls the receptacle I, formed by the inwardly-arched bottom B of the fountain, with ice, and stretches over the rim g the elastic, selttightening sheet or bottom H. It will at once be evident that when now the fountain is placed in position for drawing soda-water therefrom the cooling action Aof the ice will be mainly exerted upon that portion of the soda-water contained nearest the bottom in the annular space formed between the inwardly-arched bottom B and outside casing, A, from which space the tap D draws by means of tube f the supply of soda-water.

The principal object of our invention consists in furnishing a means of supplying con sinners with the beverage in a more convenient manner for drawing the same than has been heretofore the case where fountains were used, and to dispense in a great measure with the use of bottles or jugs for supplying the article to consumers of small quantities.

With the use of our improved fountain the manufacturer ot' soda-water will be enabled to supply a cheaper and better article to consumers than with the use of bottles, and at the same time avoid the considerable expense continually incurred by replaein g broken and lost bottles.

Having thus described the nature and object of our invention, what we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.

l. Providing a soda-water fountain of any 'form equivalent to thc onel herein described with an inwardlyarched bottom, B, forming a receptacle for ice beneath the soda-water chamber.

2. The use of an elastic self-tightening bottom, H, in connection with the described receptacle for ice, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

THEOPHILUS OGDEN. JOSEPH HINDERMYER. Witnesses WILLIAM CANON, WILLIAM RATNY. 

